After the Harmony Monument sign was damaged last year, the Art Alliance of Idyllwild commissioned David Roy to design and install a new one. Roy is the artist who created the monument. Harmony is a wooden sculpture that weighs 5 tons and towers 25 feet over Idyllwild’s village center. Roy has lived in Idyllwild off…

Palm Springs Aerial TramwayContributed Historical records of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway will soon be revealed in an episode of the popular Empire/KVCR PBS series “Uncovered in the Archives.” Series host Brad Pomerance travels to Palm Springs to sift through the tramway’s archives to learn how this world-renowned Southern California attraction came to be. The…

Lisa Haley and her Zydekats close the 14th Idyllwild Summer Concert Series. Wildly popular with Idyllwild audiences, Haley and her trademark blue fiddle return on Thursday, Aug. 21, to raise the musical temperature, heighten the humidity and spread the contagion known as zydecosis — an infectious inability to refrain from dancing, from smiling and from…

Balance is often a nebulous goal, even for those blessed with a seemingly prescribed life. But its attainment becomes nearly impossible to manage during discordant times for an untrained mind. Stirring experiences such as wildfire evacuations lift personal issues like a river flooding a lake that causes sediment to churn imperceptibly within, inevitably rising visibly…

From Toulon in Southern France to Idyllwild in Southern California, Françoise Frigola has experienced a life just as diverse as the two communities. Born in the Mediterranean region similar in climate to San Diego, Françoise (pronounced France-wis), when asked why she left, gave a practical answer, “I needed a job.” She attended college in Marseilles,…